I know several of you found it very interesting when I posted a while back about some of my sister's antique quilts.

Here's a talk she gave on wholecloth quilts.  These are quilts that involve no patchwork, but just decorative stitching through the wadding to create a pattern.

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If you'd like to see photos and discussion of her quilt collection, then ( Read more... )

I don't know if any of you are into quilting. I don't do it myself, but my sister, Carolyn,  is an expert quilter.

Even as I collect old dances as well as writing new ones, she collects old quilts as well as making new ones.

She has several interesting ones in her collection, showing a wide range of techniques, and they demonstrate traditional ( Read more... )